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Mobile edge devices (e.g., AR/VR headsets) typically need to complete timely inference tasks while operating with limited on-board computing and energy resources. In this paper, we investigate the problem of collaborative inference in…

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Estimation problems in wireless sensor networks typically involve gathering and processing data from distributed sensors to infer the state of an environment at the fusion center. However, not all measurements contribute significantly to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-17 Chen Quan , Geethu Joseph , Nitin Jonathan Myers

Transfer learning is a powerful tool enabling model training with limited amounts of data. This technique is particularly useful in real-world problems where data availability is often a serious limitation. The simplest transfer learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Federica Gerace , Diego Doimo , Stefano Sarao Mannelli , Luca Saglietti , Alessandro Laio

The recent advances of hardware technology have made the intelligent analysis equipped at the front-end with deep learning more prevailing and practical. To better enable the intelligent sensing at the front-end, instead of compressing and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Zhuo Chen , Weisi Lin , Shiqi Wang , Lingyu Duan , Alex C. Kot

To enable the pre-trained models to be fine-tuned with local data on edge devices without sharing data with the cloud, we design an efficient split fine-tuning (SFT) framework for edge and cloud collaborative learning. We propose three…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Shaohuai Shi , Qing Yang , Yang Xiang , Shuhan Qi , Xuan Wang

Given the fast growth of intelligent devices, it is expected that a large number of high-stake artificial intelligence (AI) applications, e.g., drones, autonomous cars, tactile robots, will be deployed at the edge of wireless networks in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Kai Yang , Yong Zhou , Zhanpeng Yang , Yuanming Shi

With the rise of edge computing, various AI services are expected to be available at a mobile side through the inference based on deep neural network (DNN) operated at the network edge, called edge inference (EI). On the other hand, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-16 Jinhyuk Choi , Seong-Lyun Kim , Seung-Woo Ko

Collaborative deep learning inference between low-resource endpoint devices and edge servers has received significant research interest in the last few years. Such computation partitioning can help reducing endpoint device energy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Jani Boutellier , Bo Tan , Jari Nurmi

In this paper, we study the framework of collaborative inference, or edge ensembles. This framework enables multiple edge devices to improve classification accuracy by exchanging intermediate features rather than raw observations. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Mateus P. Mota , Mattia Merluzzi , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

Implementing linear transformations is a key task in the decentralized signal processing framework, which performs learning tasks on data sets distributed over multi-node networks. That kind of network can be represented by a graph.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-24 Siavash Mollaebrahim , Baltasar Beferull-Lozano

This paper investigates task-oriented communication for edge inference, where a low-end edge device transmits the extracted feature vector of a local data sample to a powerful edge server for processing. It is critical to encode the data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-19 Jiawei Shao , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

In one-shot federated learning (FL), clients collaboratively train a global model in a single round of communication. Existing approaches for one-shot FL enhance communication efficiency at the expense of diminished accuracy. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Mahdi Beitollahi , Alex Bie , Sobhan Hemati , Leo Maxime Brunswic , Xu Li , Xi Chen , Guojun Zhang

Machine intelligence on edge devices enables low-latency processing and improved privacy, but is often limited by the energy and delay of moving and converting data. Current systems frequently avoid local model storage by sending queries to…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Sri Krishna Vadlamani , Kfir Sulimany , Zhihui Gao , Tingjun Chen , Dirk Englund

Emerging edge intelligence applications require the server to retrain and update deep neural networks deployed on remote edge nodes to leverage newly collected data samples. Unfortunately, it may be impossible in practice to continuously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Zhongnan Qu , Cong Liu , Lothar Thiele

AI-based sensing at wireless edge devices has the potential to significantly enhance Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, particularly for vision and perception tasks such as in autonomous driving and environmental monitoring. AI…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Mohamed Seif , Malcolm Egan , Andrea J. Goldsmith , H. Vincent Poor

Pre-trained foundation models (FMs), with extensive number of neurons, are key to advancing next-generation intelligence services, where personalizing these models requires massive amount of task-specific data and computational resources.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-04 Zixin Wang , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi , Khaled. B. Letaief

Task-oriented communication presents a promising approach to improve the communication efficiency of edge inference systems by optimizing learning-based modules to extract and transmit relevant task information. However, real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Songjie Xie , Hengtao He , Shenghui Song , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

Edge computing is a distributed computing paradigm that collects and processes data at or near the source of data generation. The on-device learning at edge relies on device-to-device wireless communication to facilitate real-time data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Hanqiu Chen , Xuebin Yao , Pradeep Subedi , Cong Hao

Federated edge learning (FEEL) is a widely adopted framework for training an artificial intelligence (AI) model distributively at edge devices to leverage their data while preserving their data privacy. The execution of a power-hungry…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Qunsong Zeng , Yuqing Du , Kaibin Huang

Wireless power transfer (WPT) is a promising technology that provides the network a way to replenish the batteries of the remote devices by utilizing RF transmissions. We study a class of harvest-first-transmit-later type of WPT policy,…

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